Nostrich feels faster than Primal. I looked up why.
Primal does not read the relays when you open the feed. The app talks to Primal's own cache server, cache2.primal.net. That server sits on the relays all day, stores a copy, and answers the client from that copy. The notes still live on relays. The view you scroll is theirs.
From Europe that extra hop is the lag. A round trip to a US cache is often about 120-180 ms before the first byte. A direct socket to a European relay is often about 20-40 ms. For a following feed, a few narrow queries in parallel beat one fat reply from America.
The cache still wins on search, threads, and an unknown profile. On the feed I actually open, the direct client like @Nostrich is the faster one.
Primal does not read the relays when you open the feed. The app talks to Primal's own cache server, cache2.primal.net. That server sits on the relays all day, stores a copy, and answers the client from that copy. The notes still live on relays. The view you scroll is theirs.
From Europe that extra hop is the lag. A round trip to a US cache is often about 120-180 ms before the first byte. A direct socket to a European relay is often about 20-40 ms. For a following feed, a few narrow queries in parallel beat one fat reply from America.
The cache still wins on search, threads, and an unknown profile. On the feed I actually open, the direct client like @Nostrich is the faster one.
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